New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 306pp; black cloth. McAdoo, chief magistrate of the City of New York, compiled this volume from original sources documenting several "notorious public characters, murderers, traitors, pirates, mutineers, incendiaries, defrauders, rioters, forgers, highwaymen, footpads, pickpockets, swindlers, receivers, and extortioners," as given in... More about The Procession to Tyburn:; Crime and Punishment in the Eighteenth Century

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 277pp, illustrated; green cloth stamped in gilt. A social and psychological history of hair by the inventor of the "permanent wave." The unsigned dust jacket design features a wonderful streamlined-moderne image of a head of long, flowing blonde locks. More about The Story of Hair:; Its Purpose & Its Preservation

New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 255pp; red cloth. The first in the publisher's short-lived "Red and Green Mystery-Detective Series" selected by Carolyn Wells. The foredge was stained red, the top and bottom edges green, though both have become discolored; the dust jacket was designed by Hans Flato. More about The Girl in the Fog; A Mystery Novel

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 368pp; yellow cloth stamped in black. A nice copy of the author's third novel. Critically acclaimed in his time, most of which he spent as an expatriate in France, Updegraff has since slipped into neglect. He is perhaps best remembered today... More about Dancers in the Wind

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 335pp; dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Scarce Texas novel, describing corruption in Ft. Worth, here fictionalized as "Carrolton." The author, a former newspaperman and occasional playwright, died suddenly while traveling in Granada at the age of fifty. More about The Keen Desire

New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 256pp; green cloth. Exceptionally scarce first and only novel by this comparatively obscure member of the Algonquin Round Table coterie. John Peter Toohey was himself a press agent for Broadway productions and co-wrote a couple of modestly successful plays (one of... More about Fresh Every Hour:; Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic, of one Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of...

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. First edition. 8vo, 237pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. An imaginative history of imperial Russia by the once highly popular novelist. More about The Imperial Orgy; An Account of the Tsars from the First to the Last

New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 236pp; dark red cloth. Completed just before his death, Saltus's last novel, a supernatural mystery. More about The Ghost Girl

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, [167]pp; gray cloth. Two novellas by the popular English author known for his depictions of cricket. More about Young Mischief and The Perfect Pair

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1934). First edition. 8vo, 272pp; burgundy cloth. The author's first book, stories of the American southwest. Corle wrote extensively about California, desert cultures, and Native Americans, though is perhaps better remembered for his collaborations with Merle Armitage on the work of Igor Stravinsky. More about Mojave; A Book of Stories

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. Small 8vo, 154pp; cloth-backed patterned boards, with matching endpapers. First novel by the Irish novelist, originally published in 1897 and re-issued the year before this publication by the Nonesuch Press. The author is described on the jacket, in a quote from... More about Irene Iddesleigh; With an introduction by Thomas Beer

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 293pp; green cloth stamped in gilt. Eighteen literary essays, including an early U.S. review in praise of Joyce's Ulysses, by the author of the 1927 A Key to the Ulysses of James Joyce, one of the first book length studies... More about On Strange Altars; A Book of Enthusiasms

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 248pp; green cloth stamped in yellow. The author's second novel, an odd tale set in an imaginary pre-modern society. More about At the Sign of the Sun